#reading

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Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.


Kurt Vonnegut


#reading #communication

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]


Harper Lee


#communication #computers #critical-thinking #modern-life #reading

I can read lips. Especially if they have words tattooed on them. 



Jarod Kintz


#lips #mouth #reading #tattoo #words

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn’t just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don’t have a language at all. We used every means we could think of to communicate with them, but they don’t even have the machinery to know we’re signaling. And maybe they’ve been trying to think to us, and they can’t understand why we don’t respond.


Orson Scott Card


#language #reading #telepathy #writing #communication

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.


Kevin Smokler


#bibliophiles #books #fun #reader #reading

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.


Lewis Buzbee


#reading #age

A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.


John Hill Burton


#book-soul #books-reading #age

For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.


David L. Ulin


#reading #age

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.


Geoff Ryman


#aging #books #old-age #reading #writing

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.


Alan Jacobs


#reading #age